Machine for manufacturing grain into form for food.



H. D. PERKY, DEGD.

L. SPARKSI ADMINISTRATOR. MAcIIINE FoR MANUFACTURING GRAIN INTO FORM FoR FOOD.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I5. 1905.

Patented July 20, 1915.

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ATTORNEY.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH (20., WASHINGTON, D. C.

To all whom it may concern:

U tim rmm err-1 HENRY D. PERKY, or ennivcon,

MARYLAND; LABAN SPARKS;ADMINISTRATOR'OF SAID HENRY D. PERKY, DECEASED, ASSIGNOR, BY MESN E. ASSIGNMENTS, TONIHE SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY, OF NIAGARA FALLs NEw YORK;

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Specification of ilettjers latent,

[ Patented July-20,1915.

Application fi1edMarch'15,1906. Serial no. 306,050;

Be it known that I, HENRY' D. PERKY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Glencoe, in the county of Baltimore and State ofMaryland, have made a certain new and useful invention in Machines for Mannfacturing Grain into Form for Food; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view. Fig. 4 is a side view of perforated cylinder. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail view of the cylinder.

The invention has relation to machines for the reduction of cereals to filamentous form for food, and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts.

The object of the invention is to provide a convenient and economical machine for the purpose, wherein the forming cylinder is designed to serve as a drying receptacle.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the letter a, designates framework, supporting the parts of the machine, and provided with bearings for a rotary reducing cylinder c, having a perforated cylindrical wall d. This cylinder, open at both ends, is driven by means of a head 6, provided with a journal f, to which is secured a gear wheel or pulley for power attachment. Each end of the reducing cylinder is provided with an external circular flange, and the cylinder is designed to be removable from its bearings in the frame, so that it may be rolled from place to place. It is removably engaged by means of a lug g, with the head 6, in order that it may be rotated thereby when the machine is in operation.

The machine is provided with one or more press devices, radially arranged with reference to the cylinder and opening toward the cylindrical surface thereof. Each of such devices is provided with a seat 71., for the reception of the material, which should be inclosed in a holding cylinder is, open at both ends.

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cooked product will be of solidform, s1stency. The vessel in which it is cooked may be a cylinder havingremovablecaps or.

The material usually consists of grain, deprived] of the outer hull, ground and cooked in avessel closed in Water-tight manner, in boiling water or steam; rial in the vessel is mixed with about its or theproper quantity to be all'taken up in the cooking, so that the 'orpconends, and such vessel may constitutetlie press cylinder. The follower m, of the press 18 of proper size to enter the cylinder and is driven by means of slowgearing n, in con-.

motion with the follower rod p, which is radial to the perforated cylinder.

The perforated wall of the cylinder 0, is designed to be usually beaded or bent to provide ridges at intervals, thereby raising the edges of some of the perforations to different heights.

The material being pressed against the reducing cylinder, while the latter is in r0- tation through the operation of gearing 8, passes through the perforations of the wall of this cylinder, forming elongated accretions or jointed sprays or tendrils,which accumulate in the cylinder until it is charged. The cylinder is then removed from its seat in the frame, and rolled or otherwise taken to an oven or hot air chamber, where the manufacturer is completed by drying the sprays or filaments, which can'then be discharged from the cylinder through its open end ready for packing in cartons.

Having described the invention, what I claim and desire to'secure by Letters Patent 1s 1. A machinefor reducing grain, having a removable hollow open-end receiving cylinder provided with end flanges of equal diameter and having perforations in its cylindrical wall. adapted to reduce the material to filamentous form within the cylinder, bearings for said flanges, a rotary drivehead, means of engagement of the cylinder flange to said drive-head, a feed press radial to sai'd'cylinder, and means for simultaneously operating said cylinder and said feed press.

2. In a machine for reducing grain, a removable hollow open-end receiving cylinder provided with perforations in its cylindrical wall, and circular end flanges, rotary The matel bearings engaging said flanges, a feed press normal to the cylindrical wall, and rotary means including screw gearing for operating said feed press and said cylinder.

3. In a machine for reducing cooked grain, a rotary hollow container having perforations in its side walls, a feed chamber adjacent to said container, a pressure device in said feed chamber, and means for simultaneously rotating said container and mov- 7 mg said pressure device.

at. In a machine for reducing cooked grain, a rotary hollow container having perforations in its side walls, a feed chamber adjacent to said container, a pressure device in said feed chamber, and means for s1- multaneously rotating said container and moving said pressure device, the edges of said perforations being adapted to cut suc- 'cessive portions from the mass of cooked grain in the feed chamber to form elongated jointed accretions accumulating in said container until it is charged.

5. In a machine for reducing cooked grain, a rotary hollow container having perforations inits side Walls, a drive shaft for said container having a head removably engaging the container, a feed chamber adjacent to the container, a piston in said feed chamber, having a rod located at right angles to said shaft, a power shaft, and means connected with said power shaft for simultaneously rotating said drive shaft and moving said rod step by step.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY D. PERKY.

Witnesses:

WM. C. BREED, L. S. BURBANK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

